Many honey enthusiasts often ask these questions: "How much honey can we eat every day?", "How much honey is considered excessive?" As a very general rule of thumb, in the case of a normal diet, I recommend not more than 10 teaspoons of honey (which is about 50 ml) per day.
This is my humble layman perspective coupled with some trusted source of advice from the honey stores, and not from any medical point of view backed by scientific data.
Nevertheless, this question about honey is actually a very tricky one.
The amount of honey considered to be optimum depends a whole lot on a person's diet and lifestyle.
For instance, one could be taking foods with very low sugar content every day and leading a very active lifestyle, following a disciplined exercise regimen, while on the other extreme end; another with a sweet tooth could be taking plenty of high-sugar stuff and living a sedentary lifestyle.
Hence, apparently, the daily amount of honey to be prescribed for different people would not be the same.
And as per the widely-known principle, excessiveness of any food, including honey is not wise.
But, not all sweeteners are equal.
One excellent way to healthier eating is to use honey in our everyday food, for example, replace empty-calorie table sugar with nutritious honey in your routine beverages, spread honey instead of jam on bread, etc, For instance, if all this while you have been taking tea, coffee, or juices with sugar in all your regular meals, you can straight away replace the sugar with honey.
Some Benefits of Honey visitors have another concern about honey, that is, if eating honey, a very sweet liquid, would cause them to gain weight.
Actually, the principle of weight gain is very simple: When you eat more than what your body needs, regardless of whether it is sugar, fat, or honey, the excess calories are stored as fat which in turns leads to weight gain.
If you are doing a full fasting, taking in only liquids and no other foods (which is not a normal diet), I learned from a honey fast book that an average-size adult can take up to about 150 ml to 200 ml honey mixed with water or tea everyday for a few days.
Please note that this recommendation is for a full-fasting with just honey water for detoxification purposes, lasting only a few days.
The only source of carbohydrate/energy during the fast is the honey consumed.
Hence, the daily honey dosage during this fast could look something like this - two glasses of water/tea each time with a tablespoon of honey (about 15 ml) each, for breakfast, lunch, at 3pm, dinner, and before bedtime.
All these would add up to about 150 ml of honey in total for a day.
This is my humble layman perspective coupled with some trusted source of advice from the honey stores, and not from any medical point of view backed by scientific data.
Nevertheless, this question about honey is actually a very tricky one.
The amount of honey considered to be optimum depends a whole lot on a person's diet and lifestyle.
For instance, one could be taking foods with very low sugar content every day and leading a very active lifestyle, following a disciplined exercise regimen, while on the other extreme end; another with a sweet tooth could be taking plenty of high-sugar stuff and living a sedentary lifestyle.
Hence, apparently, the daily amount of honey to be prescribed for different people would not be the same.
And as per the widely-known principle, excessiveness of any food, including honey is not wise.
But, not all sweeteners are equal.
One excellent way to healthier eating is to use honey in our everyday food, for example, replace empty-calorie table sugar with nutritious honey in your routine beverages, spread honey instead of jam on bread, etc, For instance, if all this while you have been taking tea, coffee, or juices with sugar in all your regular meals, you can straight away replace the sugar with honey.
Some Benefits of Honey visitors have another concern about honey, that is, if eating honey, a very sweet liquid, would cause them to gain weight.
Actually, the principle of weight gain is very simple: When you eat more than what your body needs, regardless of whether it is sugar, fat, or honey, the excess calories are stored as fat which in turns leads to weight gain.
If you are doing a full fasting, taking in only liquids and no other foods (which is not a normal diet), I learned from a honey fast book that an average-size adult can take up to about 150 ml to 200 ml honey mixed with water or tea everyday for a few days.
Please note that this recommendation is for a full-fasting with just honey water for detoxification purposes, lasting only a few days.
The only source of carbohydrate/energy during the fast is the honey consumed.
Hence, the daily honey dosage during this fast could look something like this - two glasses of water/tea each time with a tablespoon of honey (about 15 ml) each, for breakfast, lunch, at 3pm, dinner, and before bedtime.
All these would add up to about 150 ml of honey in total for a day.